21+ hour, 14+ min ago  (187+ words) Lower Manhattan was a joyful place yesterday, thanks to the New York Knicks " but also thanks to the Mamdani administration's decision to properly honor the team's championship by making the area south of Canal Street car free for most of…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (593+ words) Idle (enforce) no more. New Yorkers would no longer be able to collect a portion of the fine paid by violators of the city's half-century-old anti-idling law under legislation proposed by U. S. Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N. J.) and Nick Langworthy (R-Elmira) in…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (515+ words) Mayor Mamdani campaigned on a pledge to implement "universal" car-free "school streets" outside every school in the city " and now advocates are calling out his proposed budget for failing to do so. Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin should…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (273+ words) We'll have all day on Thursday to use our greatest public space "Broadway "to celebrate the New York Knickerbockers, but in between the buzzer that sounded the end of Game 5 and Thursday's Key to the City ceremony, we've fallen in…...

3+ day, 26+ min ago  (737+ words) New Yorkers pay more than 10 times as much to ride an electric Citi Bike compared to bike share in peer cities, and Mayor Mamdani should peg the cost to $3 for a 45-minute ride, advocates demanded. Citi Bike members shell out…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (650+ words) A cop drove his squad car into the Schermerhorn Street protected bike lane in downtown Brooklyn last week and injured a cyclist who had the light and was clearly in the well-demarcated cycle track. The video also shows that Mc…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (390+ words) Mayor Mamdani must go a step further with the city's planned Park Avenue redesign and build a protected bike lane that doesn't sacrifice pedestrian space, according to two Midtown community boards. That vote came one night after neighboring Manhattan Community…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (461+ words) Streetsblog New York City Tuesday's Headlines: Bridge to the Future Edition A bunch of Streetsbloggers and Streetsblog-adjacent fans of car-free streets flocked to the newly reopened Carroll Street Bridge in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn last night to bask in…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (684+ words) More funding or MORE FUNDING? Mayor Mamdani wants to increase Open Streets funding beyond what the Department of Transportation said it needed for the program at the tail end of the Adams administration " but open streets advocates wants the City…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (1008+ words) Dmytro Stechenko was not just a stand-up guy, but had a personal morality that he simply did not violate. He didn't litter. He didn't jaywalk. He wouldn't so much as sit in an accessible seat on a subway, even if…...